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Basics Walk Highlights Walk Fullday Walk

(Market Square)

Victoria Highlights Walk


• When: You decide. Available daily, rain or shine, by reservation only.

• Duration: 2.5 hours (approximately)

• Key sights:      
  • Homecoming Sailor's emotional monument
  • Dominion (e.i. British) Customs House
  • Windsor Hotel ridiculous explosion
  • Roger's Chocolates a tragic success story
  • Pemberton, Weiler and Union Club Bldgs (Victorian old-timers)
  • Bank of BC, a bard and a banker--Robert Service's story
  • Royal Bank robbery (Munro's)
  • Morris the Tobacconist (and his standing lighter)
  • Fort's yellow brick road
  • Bastion Square (what were the brideships?)
  • ex-Maritime Museum (jail, and gallows, and...)
  • Rithet Bldg. and the old fort well
  • Wharf St. (Finlayson & Yates fur storehouses)
  • (poor) Waddington Alley (sodas before Coke)
  • Johnson St. & defunct Strauss' Bridge: a Golden Gate precursor
  • where is Market Sq. roof gone?
  • Chinatown, taxes and discrimination
  • Old Opium Factories (yes, we had twelve!)
  • Fan Tan Alley, gambling & police action
  • Gate of Harmonious (compound) Interests
  • Yen Wo Society Bldg. and a half
  • Chinese Benevolent Associations: have an orange?
  • Chinese Pharmacy & School
  • Masonic Temple (yes, masonic founders)
  • The new old Hudson Bay Bldg.
  • City Hall
  • Oldest Synagogue in Canada
  • St. Andrews Roman Catholic Cathedral
  • Carnegie-donated Library
  • old Fort St. 'Antiques Row'
  • St. Andrews Presbyterian Church
  • Weiler's Bldg. sub-sidewalks and fun Pagliacci's
  • Eaton Centre contraption
  • Trounce Alley--our first street-malls
  • ...and much more!

• Price: US$75.00 p/p (minimum of two people--if just one person: US$100)

• Meet: Just outside the Visitor Information Centre (corner of Government St. and Humboldt St.). Look for our guides, wearing identifiers/signs with YOUR name (like at an airport). Get printable directions clicking here for map.

• Note: After this ultra-enjoyable walk you will seriously understand Victoria much better. It includes over 30 main city landmarks (different from our other walks). This is not a strenuous walk. Snacks, drinks, hotel pickup, transportation, foot massage, mid-life-counseling, good sense of humour and gratuities are not included (actually massage, counseling and good sense of humour are not even available!)



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  • Booking
Basics Walk Highlights Walk Fullday Walk
(Market Square)

Victoria Highlights Walk

• When: You decide. Available daily, rain or shine, by reservation only.

• Duration: 2.5 hours (approximately)

• Key sights:      
  • Homecoming Sailor's emotional monument
  • Dominion (e.i. British) Customs House
  • Windsor Hotel ridiculous explosion
  • Roger's Chocolates a tragic success story
  • Pemberton, Weiler and Union Club Bldgs (Victorian old-timers)
  • Bank of BC, a bard and a banker--Robert Service's story
  • Royal Bank robbery (Munro's)
  • Morris the Tobacconist (and his standing lighter)
  • Fort's yellow brick road
  • Bastion Square (what were the brideships?)
  • ex-Maritime Museum (jail, and gallows, and...)
  • Rithet Bldg. and the old fort well
  • Wharf St. (Finlayson & Yates fur storehouses)
  • (poor) Waddington Alley (sodas before Coke)
  • Johnson St. & defunct Strauss' Bridge: a Golden Gate precursor
  • where is Market Sq. roof gone?
  • Chinatown, taxes and discrimination
  • Old Opium Factories (yes, we had twelve!)
  • Fan Tan Alley, gambling & police action
  • Gate of Harmonious (compound) Interests
  • Yen Wo Society Bldg. and a half
  • Chinese Benevolent Associations: have an orange?
  • Chinese Pharmacy & School
  • Masonic Temple (yes, masonic founders)
  • The new old Hudson Bay Bldg.
  • City Hall
  • Oldest Synagogue in Canada
  • St. Andrews Roman Catholic Cathedral
  • Carnegie-donated Library
  • old Fort St. 'Antiques Row'
  • St. Andrews Presbyterian Church
  • Weiler's Bldg. sub-sidewalks and fun Pagliacci's
  • Eaton Centre contraption
  • Trounce Alley--our first street-malls
  • ...and much more!

• Price: US$75.00 p/p (minimum of two people--if just one person: US$100)

• Meet: Just outside the Visitor Information Centre (corner of Government St. and Humboldt St.). Look for our guides, wearing identifiers/signs with YOUR name (like at an airport). Get printable directions clicking here for map.

• Note: After this ultra-enjoyable walk you will seriously understand Victoria much better. It includes over 30 main city landmarks (different from our other walks). This is not a strenuous walk. Snacks, drinks, hotel pickup, transportation, foot massage, mid-life-counseling, good sense of humour and gratuities are not included (actually massage, counseling and good sense of humour are not even available!)



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